The Charge of the Light Brigade
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- Опубліковано 24 лис 2007
- Documentary on the Charge of the Light Brigade. Includes graphic quotes from survivors, and the original recording of Alfred Tennyson reading part of his famous poem. Written and narrated by Terry Brighton for The Queen's Royal Lancers Regimental Museum.
Terry Brighton is the author of Hell Riders: The Truth about the Charge of the Light Brigade - visit www.terrybrighton.com for more.
In March 2012 he completed a novel of the Crimean War, Dead Men Riding, featuring Major Jack Blake of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Department - visit www.jackblake.com for more.
What a disciplined army we had a crazy charge but magnificent and what a wonderful poem about brave British men.
You wouldn't be so proud when you found out that numerous Cossacks after the battle refused to face British cavalry again out of fear. The sheer bull headedness of the charge and the casualties inflicted by the totally disadvantaged British was staggering and worthy of acclaim of even the greatest Spartans.
to be honest, wouldn't that just make people more proud? cus the Cossacks didnt want to face them anymore cus of how scary and powerful they were?
Most evocative piece on the topic bar none with those first hand quotes from the survivors. Thank you
Astonishingly moving, Tennyson's reading over the film.
Very nicely done.
I had the pleasure of meeting Terry Brighton two weeks ago. He gave an amazing presentation on the Light Brigade.
Well done!
Very good narrative! I was also blown away by hearing Tennyson recite his poem. Well done.
Just finished Hells Riders Terry, great book, thoroughly enjoyed it, good work :)
Amazing video, used in my English class. It was wonderful 🙏🙏
The colour clips are from 'The Charge of The Light Brigade', made in 1968 & directed by Tony Richardson. Its a brilliant movie which stars Trevor Howard, John Gielgud, Harry Andrews & David Hemmings. Its available on a region 1 DVD release, but the deleted region 2 BFI version boasts some extras if you can find it.
The one thing just as interesting as the video is the comments you can see history of them it’s amazing it’s been over a decade it almost makes me cry
Thank's for the information. History can develop in many odd tracks and directions.
This sort of thing makes me so proud to be British. In any war you can see unity, spirit and bravery. All the odds were against the British in this war such as unfamiliar terrain, napoleonic methods and lack of supplies, however no matter what we won. We always persevere. All you have to do is look back through British history and see at times of national crisis everyone groups together and fights for our country. This is why I am so proud to wave a Union Jack.
Head over and tackle Putin now the Ukrainian people need it now more than ever
Yeah, it does sound pretty nasty, I'd never heard the exact details of the battle before :( My 5x great-uncle was in this battle, and was one of the 195 who survived. He was thrown from his horse when it's leg was blown off, and was trampled by riderless horses, but managed to fight his way through heavy shelling to save a fellow soldier who was pinned down by a dead horse, before escaping to safety. Will always be proud of you, James Ikin Nunnerley ^___^
RIP 1832-1905 x
need too do this again.
Sure fire ahead 😅
Actually, the heavy brigade initially followed the light brigade, but was ordered back when it was apparent that those men proceding into the valley would die for no use. Yes, the light brigade reached the battery line, but at that time already has lost too many men to do any good.
Florence Nightingale did practically nothing during the war. She had no power to do anything in the field. After the war she proved to be a fantastic statistician who had made meticulous notes. She pioneered pie charts and graphs as a tool to present information to none professionals, and put forwards the hideous mathematics of military health care in a way politicians could grasp. her service and mathematical and logical mind and presentation of her findings lead to great improvements in military and subsequently public health care. She was the lady with the pen rather than the lady with the lamp.
An amazing and stirring short film about this ever-famous but wasteful Charge, set against Tony Richardson's 1968 film - which is surprisingly accurate in it's depiction. We British do like to celebrate and elevate our military failures (as well as our many successes) such as Dunkirk and Arnhem, brave as they all were. Terry's book 'Hell Riders is an excellent account and highly recommended, as is Mark Adkins 'The Charge'.
My great great great uncle John Charles Kilvert was in the charge of the light brigade and lay in jured overnight in the freezing cold. He was rescued and later treated by Florence Knightingale. He went on to become Alderman Kilvert at Wednesbury in the black country U.K. My Grandfather and Mothers name was Kilvert w hich is a Norse name.
when my great great uncle was a boy he wanked to a photo of Florence Knightingale the photo was in a book about the light brigade. The only other photos of women in the house at that time were of his mother and sister, so he had to make do with old frowning Florence. In his old age he was kicked out of one nursing home because he'd wank at the nurses, I guess he had a life long problem with inappropriate behavior towards nurses... Its amazing how much our two family's have in common!
I met Elton John once.
@@Chooseaname74 Sounds a marvellous man but unfortunately born before his time. Free internet porn would have been a joy to such a free thinker. I shall knock one out later in honour of his memory.
Cool story bro
That last bit with the wax recording was oh so erie.
And remember Churchill, his famous quote.
"The Americans can always be counted upon to do the right, after they have done everything else."
randolph martz what has this got to do with the video?
@IsThisLife09 Absolutely astounding what a person can learn from youTubes comments. Cheers from Virginia and.......Best Wishes & condolences to Mr. James Ikin Nunnerley.
I saw it when first released in the late 60's. It was obviously influenced by anti-Vietnam sentiment, but I didn't realize at the time how historically accurate it was
@kolbpilot Thank you :)
@TehCthulhu I they're quotes from letters/diaries read by actors. They're not lame, they're not particularly poetic but they're first-hand accounts of the charge of the Light Brigade!
Sorry Mary Seacole was not ignored she was honoured in her lifetime but forgotten after her death. Check it on wikipedia.
And quite rightly forgotten.
@dagmar1991 , Actually the brits were afraid of the Russians getting a port there and being able to control the Mediterranean, threatening the royal navy’s control
To be more accurate, Lord Lucan recalled the Heavy Brigade to prevent even more useless slaughter. It was a brave act and one for which he deserved credit. You're right about the French Chasseurs d'Afrique though. Without them attacking the Russians on the Fedoukine Heights the losses would have been far greater on the return journey.
Thank you! I'm only just beginning to grasp the mechanics of the battle. Till now I have been concentrating on the politics of the period that led to the conflict for my school exams.
Don't forget he was also Custer, and won the Battle of Gettysburg all by himself!
The Movie was great
It was atypical British daring success 🤗
The courage and determination of those troopers is most certainly something to be proud of. The Russians said as much to the survivors taken prisoner. But the cascading failure in senior leadership that led to such useless loss of life and combat cabability -- not so much.
US officers, most notably Capt (Later Maj Gen) George McClellan, served as observers in that war. According to him, the fact American observers, in including him, did not make clear the need to make tactics changes due to the advent of rifled muskets, was a critical failure. That failure can be tied directly to the early horrendous casualties both sides suffered in our Civil War.
Thanks, but didn't the Crimean conflict take place before 1869? What was the reason behind being concerned about Suez then?
Yes that is true they covered the survivors. But the heavy brigade had earlier carried out a far more successful charge cutting their way through several times their number od Russian cavalry and were in no state to go again. Most writers consider it strange that the hevies never get credit for their success.
1935, right after he defeated the French when he was Captain Blood. After that he changed his name to Robin Hood and fought the Sheriff of Nottingham. Boy, was he a busy guy!
A mistake may have small or large consequences......
When you look at it, there was an initial mistake when the light brigade attacked the main force...If the heavy brigade had followed up they could have broken the Cossacks completely especially with the French cavalry which came to the lights aid....All hind site of course.
The French interest was both in preventing Russian access to the Mediterranean and in maintaining their control over much of central and eastern Europe (the latter was very much a preoccupation of Napoleon III). They had a much more experienced and better organised army than Britain did.
I can only hope that you are right and that, in one hundred years, people will be able to have a picnic in a lovely public park in Kabul without the fear that it will be interrupted by a bomb or gunfire. I also hope that the same will be true of Baghdad and Mogadishu as well.
@RRAvon - Does setting up the UN relieve a country from honouring a treaty? According to the London-Zurich Treaty during early 1959 Britain agreed to defend Cyprus in case of an invasion. Britain signed the treaty - inspite of the fact that an authority such as the UN was already in existence. The need for Britain to sign the treaty was not considered unnecessary on account of the UN's existence. Furthermore, Britain was in a unique position to stop the invasion from their Cyprus bases.
Completely different circumstances.
American's have enough of their own debacles to never place any dispersions upon the valor of these gallant men. I've watched both the Movie which this video was taken much of it's footage from, and the Errol Flynn one, (which all was a work of fiction but for the actual charge itself) and never had any thought of being an "armchair general" today I seriously doubt any soldiers serving past or present would equal this type of courage.
blah blah blah etc etc etc
Americans at Chosin Resevoir (along with a detatchment of Royal Marines).
Even with all the examples of American heroism, that one is hard to top.
@HuasoPodrido It wasn't so much the port of Sevastopol itself that worried Britain. The British (and French) were worried that Russia would use Sevastapol to conquer Constantinople. And from Constantinople the Russians could send ships into the Mediterranean, destroy the Ottoman Empire completely, absorb huge sections and create a dangerous power vacuum in the middle-east. The British wanted nothing more than to keep the status quo
as the Great saying Goes.. ''Remember the Nobal 600... Charging into the Vally of death!.. Cannon to the right of them, cannon to the left of them, Cannon to the front of them!.. Volly'd and thunderd!!''
You speak of Britons here - not of British.
Ther Romans used to practise the same at that time. Things were so very different back then. Even in the most humane of contemporary cultures, exposure of babies was employed at the time - in some parts of Greece, e.g. Sparta.
The British did quite well eventually!
can never forget the french defence of bir hakeim!
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And i respect the soldiers of the south! Hooray for Dixie!
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are you sure that was Alfred Tennyson reading at the end it sounded like darth vader when his drunk
@Zahakl Here I believe it's 'Don't fuck with the British' as they don't fucking back down son..
You must be listening to a different recording from me.
Yeah. For real. This gem belongs alongside Dieppe, Operation Market Garden and the Defense of Singapore.
@dagmar1991 Actually the Turks paid the British back handsomely, in terms of trade advantages and the virtual secession of Egypt. In fact the relationship between the Ottomans and Britain was mutually beneficial (it not only served Britain as a cash cow but as a non threatening buffer against real potential enemies). In return the British ensured that the Ottoman Empire survived. It worked very well until the revolution in the Ottoman Empire led the Young Turks to come to power.
This is perhaps the most stupid question: Lord Raglan & Lord Cardigan are two names in knitted garments. Is it descended from these two guys?
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France thanks to this victory won by her alone pratically on the ground, after its defeat in 1815 vs all the European kings united vs it, take again its important & true place in the European continental geopolitic : The 1st
Louis Bonaparte then president of the French Republic, benefitted from this new victory of the French Armies after that of the 1st Empire, to create the second French Empire and to become Napoleon III after that of his famous uncle Napoleon 1st in 1804...
Too bad he got kicked out of Mexico.
? Learn the real History. It was never the French army in Mexico as it was the case in force and really during the Crimean War that it really won alone on the ground (moreover in the end in all history and its facts, the French have never lost against the Russians ^^).
In Mexico, it was just a few tens to hundreds of military advisers and soldiers who tried painfully, because it was very difficult to do, the official army at the base made up of unqualified and forcefully engaged peasants, a disciplined army, competent and modern.
But they did not succeed, the work was too difficult at the time and Mexico was too far from France, very busy in Europe and Africa in the same time, to really send its troops in Mexico in force.
So, the a French picked a fight they could not win, and that means they did not lose. I see.
Some (though by no means all) people whose ancestry lies in the Caribbean, South Asia or Africa are happy to call themselves "Black British" or "British Asian". I have never heard of anyone calling themselves "Black English" or "English Asian".
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^ Sensible observation. Makes a refreshing change. I suggest it could be said that British interests lay in bolstering Turkish power, not only in the Black Sea, the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, but along the parts of the Danube they controlled.
My great uncle x4 Billy Britain was the bugler who sounded the charge of the light brigade, his brother also served in the 17th lancers and was in the battle too, Billy Britain was seriously injured and was taken to Scutari hospital where he dies from infection, Florence nightengale done what she could but it was disease that killed more than there injuries did, the Bugle remained in my family until hard times hit and was sold to a famous american actor
The charge was brave, but the poor orders meant that they were doomed. Lets separate those two facts in the first place.
@FellowTownsman Cardigan, you're a stew-stick.
@dagmar1991 Turkey didnt particaped at WW2
@RRAvon - However, they seemed to have been rather reluctant to exercise the same right in defending against Turkish expansionism earlier that century, or help to liberate parts of Europe and islands in the Aegean Sea that remained under Turkish occupation till the turn of the century. Turkey has been invading other countries as late as 1974. Britain was a guarantor power at the time of the invasion of Cyprus by Turkey - yet they did nothing to stop Turkish agression. Double standards?
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BUT it was pratically the only great action of the Brit Army during this war...
The Crimee’s War is an important war in the History
It mark the 1st Modern War by the use for the first time of modern weapons and much more fatal than in the past : Automatic guns, machins-guns, explosive balls drawn by the “canons”, etc..
In this time again like in the time of the Napoleonic age, the only true force of the UK especially in front of the others big European powers was its Navy
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You name only British generals? What about the German and French Generals who did exactly the same thing BUT WORSE? Never mind the Americans who had all the experiences of the British, French and Germans on paper yet still lost a horrendous amount of men in futile charges.
@Zaharkl Except the British won the Crimean War.
@cumbas Now, in WW2 the British army evacuated what was left of the French army (after the rest was beaten by the Germans) and got back home to be re-equipped to fight in later battles all around the world.
France was beaten in 1940, not Great Britain. And Frances viche goverment was planning on helping the Germans. Do you know around 80, 000 French fought in the German army??? Britain had been disamring for around 14 years before war broke out, so we wasn't in any better position than France.
@dagmar1991 Who, by "biting the hand that fed them" achieved the one thing Russia couldn't, the destruction of the Ottoman Empire.
Iron maiden the trooper
@cumbas America done barely anything in North Africa, they US only fought it's first battle in DEC 1942 (Nearly 1943!) We had already beaten most of Rommels forces (Which outnumbered us for most of the campaign in north Africa) before the US set foot in North Africa.
they only helped during the Northen invasion of Europe were they helped liberate countries under control & occupied by Germany, like FRANCE.
Russia would of overrun all of Europe an claimed it as it's own if it wasn't for the allies
you would think that the guys in charge leading the bridgade would realize what was happening and say screw this and tell everyone to get the hell back.
Lions led by donkeys.nothings changed?
Listen to this english lamentation report make me proud being a descendant of the cossacks.
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But Its Army was not enough strong to support alone a war vs another European great power, vs Russia so in this Crimee’s War
& of course on the ground it was the French Army who supported pratically all the efforts for the Allied side : Numbers of soldiers, numbers of guns, number of battles vs the Russians
& it was in true the French Armies who saved more times the Brit Armies in bad situation vs the Russian Armies
Who else is watching this for homework
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The forces which invaded the Crimea were not only British and French, but also TURKISH. Sardinians joined the war later. The captured cannons which the Russians were dragging away were TURKISH, not British. The Turks had held off the Russians for a long period, but were forced to retreat just before much larger British and French forces arrived.
The guns were British, but manned by Turkish troops.
@mrdiscus66 So true. lol He really has a problem with his history doesn't he. haha
France didn't surrender in WWII any more than Norway, Poland, Czechoslovakia, or any of the rest of Europe did. Yet somehow they have this stigma as cowards. It's not like they had much of a choice against Germany's power back then.
They could have evacuated the government, and continued the war from London, or Africa. That was what was usualy done. Instead, they signed an armistice, and set up the collaborationist Vichy regime.
@cumbas - You call me an idiot together with other silly names and then post about 500 words in order to make me see things the way as you.
Also, there is an abundance of names used to make fun of the French which are below one's dignity to employ - inspite of the anonymity of UA-cam.
I stand by my original remarks of one year ago!
80% of the UK population lives in England, not 95%. It's less than that if you count people's origins rather than where they live now.
I'm Scots. I've never in my life come across a Scots person who does not object to being called "English". Or a Welsh person, for that matter.
who else watching dis for school
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@cumbas Also, the first BEF which fought during WW1 was the only allied army that held the first line against the Germans at the battle of Mons. The 80, 000 force that fought the Germans 180, 000 + force suffered only around 1000 dead or wounded while the Germans suffered around 6000 dead. Then, the French 5th army covering the British right flank broke & fled, in their own country! (Who were fighting a smaller German force and had more troops than the British force) You were being destroyed.
Napoleon said that, man for man, the English were the best soliders in Europe. He was just glad there were as few of them as there were.
(This ignores the Scots. I wouldn’t, but that is what he said)
Great video for copyright lawyers to make some money from!
Yes but the British had a concept for democracy. What's the use of a flash toilet if your life is subject to the whims of a dictator?
As regards bloody sports, they were enjoyed only by a small part of the population.
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Only your big natural fortress island saved you for a few moment because it is of course the entry of The USA and the Russia who saved our world (fortunatly)
To resume the 2 WW if France dont support the big effort and battles on the ground dice the beginning like in 1914 for example for the WW1 the same thing would have occurred because you did not win & you cannot win alone a big war vs a big power in Europe since your defeat in the 1 hundred war vs Us ^^
And you can go in to there now and have a picnic. As though it never happened. What were the British and the Russians doing there anyway? I suppose that in a hundred years from now that I will have picnic in Kabul. I did so only recently. Perhaps the Americans know what they are doing. They always do, when the cost of it isn't there's.
I don't know. I only write my cheques quarterly.
My cousin Paul went back packing through Afghanistan before the Russians invaded. It had much lower violent crime rates back then. Khrushchev's son currently lives in New York and Castro's sister lives in Miami although none of the Kennedy family have taken up residence in Russia let's note.
My cousin Paul went back packing through Afghanistan before the Russians invaded. It had much lower violent crime rates back then. Khrushchev's son currently lives in New York and Castro's sister lives in Miami although none of the Kennedy family have taken up residence in Russia let's note.
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brits didnt care about the turks they fought the russian bear to protect british interests that would be threatened by russian fleet with accessto the med sea and to call the french cowardly is ignorant
Who calls the French cowardly?
Why do you call the British army "English", but don't call the French one "Limousins" or "Picards". At least Limousin and Picardie have regional governments with Presidents etc., whereas England doesn't and didn't at the time of the war in the Crimea. It ceased to exist as a political entity in 1707.
But it WASN'T an English army! The army was a composite one of Scots, Welsh and Irish as well as English, put into battle by a a composite state (or "Union"). The state called England ceased to exist in 1707. What you prefer is irrelevant. Suppose I "prefer" to insist the USA is really called California or Texas. Such a "preference" would make me both an idiot and WRONG.
INACCURATE history in two respects.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley'd & thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.
@cumbas Ok, to end your little rant, a simple one messaged answer as to this.
If France is so much more better than us, why couldn't you hold the Germans back on your own during WW1 and WW2? Also, why did you bend over for the shaft of Germany during WW2 until, us, the US came in to save France?
I rest my case.
Last time I checked Omdurman was neither in the Crimea nor on the Danube.
You're talking about a different war, about 45 years later.
If your point is that what passes for "history" is usually Eurocentric and biased to western interests, fair enough. I agree with that, but the level of ignorance on display here no doubt leads some twits to think Omdurman was a battle in the war under discussion.
Martin James Or, maybe, it was just a fucking MISTAKE. Get over yourself.
@cumbas Hate to break it to you cumbas but the Chinese were using exploding shot and shell around 2000 years before the Crimean war ever took place...